Pour Over vs French Press – Our Take on the Age Old Question

Sep 21, 2017 @ 10:47 pm

Pour over vs French press, which brew is better? This is an age old question indeed. For eons, coffee nerds have been bickering and fighting over which coffee brew is better, or the more sophisticated.

In fact, the pour over vs French press debate is the coffee nerd’s equivalent of the console war.

But they are different.

French Press

Let’s start this pour over vs French press debate with the good old French press.

For French press, the most important thing is the pot, or, rather, the press you make it in.

For both brews, you pour slightly cooler than boiling water over them, but there is a significant difference to how much contact the water has with the grounds and for how long.

With the French press, the ground is put into a carafe, and the water poured over it.

Then you let the grounds steep and soak it in like you would in a hot tub.

After that, you press the plunger and separate the grounds from the lovely concoction.